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Congress poised to regulate tobacco (next week)
TimesDispatch.com ^ | Feb 9, 2007 | PETER HARDIN

Posted on 02/09/2007 4:35:32 PM PST by SheLion

WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan legislation to give the federal Food and Drug Administration regulatory control over tobacco products may be introduced next week.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: keepyournoseout; nannystate; nostrildamus; potsmokerslaughing
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To: SheLion

The FDA regulates foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Tobacco is none of these. So why ask the FDA boobocracy to regulate it? (They don't exactly do a stellar job with the food and drug stuff.)


21 posted on 02/09/2007 5:45:11 PM PST by freespirited (Demand perfection, get Hillary.)
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To: SheLion

The Donks won't ban tobacco for the same reason they fight against the Fair Tax. Both take away the tax dollars they love to control.


22 posted on 02/09/2007 5:46:29 PM PST by upchuck (Wanted: Conservatives to go read this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771175/posts)
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To: SheLion

This will certainly lead to the eventual end of tobacco products. I'd be willing to bet there will be over 60 votes and it would even survive a veto.

Tobacco is the modern day legislator's favorite 'whooping boy', except for legislators from North Carolina and Virginia.


23 posted on 02/09/2007 5:51:36 PM PST by KoRn
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To: SheLion

When they came for the RU48, I said nothing, for I cannot get pregnant.
When they came for the online gambling, I said nothing, for I am not Bill Bennett.
When they came for the marijuana, I said nothing, for I am not a junkie.
When they came for my tobacco, there was no one left to speak for me.


24 posted on 02/09/2007 5:55:25 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: SheLion
Sen. Richard M. Burr, R-N.C., recently told the Winston-Salem Journal he would work to block Senate passage of any bill allowing for FDA regulation of cigarettes. "I would use every legislative tool at my disposal," he vowed.

THAT's the kind of attitude I want to see from all Republicans on every hairbrained Democrap scheme that makes its way into Congress.

I am sick and tired of Republican wimps!!

25 posted on 02/09/2007 5:58:55 PM PST by Edit35
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To: freespirited
Tobacco is none of these

It is classified as a poison..

26 posted on 02/09/2007 6:16:51 PM PST by EVO X
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To: w1andsodidwe
...when all those crazy freepers tried to convince me to not vote republican, just to show them we are mad. Well now they know how mad we are. Hope the crazy ones are happy now.

Time to find a new tune...sing a different song...

Every "conservative" or "republican" I know, and I know a lot of them, voted last cycle. The pubpols lost this one because they stood for nothing except dem-lite and they lost the "moderate" vote. Get off the whining and hold those in office responsible for this crap. It wasn't the conservative voters!

FMCDH(BITS)

27 posted on 02/09/2007 6:18:20 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: SheLion

Normal4me poised to quit paying federal income taxes...


28 posted on 02/09/2007 6:21:10 PM PST by Normal4me
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To: SheLion

The GOP better tell Nostrildamus to go pound sand


29 posted on 02/09/2007 6:27:21 PM PST by pissant
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To: nothingnew

Well, I don't have to hide my head and feel guilty, but plenty here do.


30 posted on 02/09/2007 6:35:22 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: gcruse; All

Next is fast food....


31 posted on 02/09/2007 6:38:50 PM PST by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: KevinDavis

You're right. I forgot trans fats, lol


32 posted on 02/09/2007 6:40:11 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: lonestar
Yet it is one of the least regulated of all consumer products,"

How many "consumer products" have their own federal bureaucracy and enforcement agency they share with only 3 or 4 other "consumer products"?

33 posted on 02/09/2007 6:43:24 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: KevinDavis
Next is fast food....

"every blade of grass"

-Clarence Thomas

34 posted on 02/09/2007 6:45:22 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic; All

Be Well.....


35 posted on 02/09/2007 6:46:40 PM PST by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: freespirited

Nicotine is a drug and a VERY potent pesticide.

In fact, nicotine sulfate is listed among the deadliest of poisons.

http://scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/hazard-indicators.tcl?edf_substance_id=65%2d30%2d5


36 posted on 02/09/2007 6:51:13 PM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: clintonh8r

With a RAT/RINO coalition running congress, they don't care about the loss of tobacco taxes....they'll just raise some other taxes to make up for it.

That's what makes me the most irate..............our own kind sticking it to us like this!  A damn RINO!


37 posted on 02/09/2007 7:22:13 PM PST by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: azhenfud
Then what is next? Tomatoes? Artichokes?
38 posted on 02/09/2007 7:23:02 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: SheLion

Smoke 'em while you got 'em!


39 posted on 02/09/2007 7:24:03 PM PST by airborne (Elect an Airborne Ranger,Vietnam Veteran for President ! Duncan Hunter 2008!!)
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To: SheLion
In my lowly opinion Waxman is just another Kalifornia muck diving Democrat.

He is so short of physical stature that he must exert his rather huge Nancy Peloser ego to the fullest so as to seem like he is one of the fecal good ole boys of the Dimocrat Party.
40 posted on 02/09/2007 7:25:54 PM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia now a certified socialist state reporting to Mexico City for further instructions)
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